lunes, 30 de mayo de 2016

What about research assessment systems?

Research assessment systems
are a very important and complex issue in the research scope, in this way,I
found an interesting matrix that, in my opinion, defines very well, at a high
level, what research is, and what it can or must be evaluated:

In this matrix of assessment,
we can clearly distinguish the main research topics, so we can see:

The research main actors like
the researcher, the research group, the department, the institution, or the
research fields. Based on this, we can make a series of questions related to
the assessment: the purpose is it to inform the allocation of research
funding, to improve performance, or to increase regional engagement?

Then there are questions about which
output dimensions should be considered: scholarly impact, innovation and social
benefit, or sustainability?

In this way, describes four assessment
methodologies: peer review, which provides a judgment based on
expert knowledge; end-user reviews, such as customer satisfaction; quantitativeindicators,
including bibliometric and other types of measures; self-evaluation.

These
four methodologies can be — and often are — combined into a multi-dimensional
assessment.

Bibliometric
indicators have a central role in research assessment systems, and the main
types are: basic indicators (easy to obtain and available for decades),
normalized indicators (correcting for particular biases) and advanced
indicators (based on advanced networks analyses)

You
can see all this information in this article. This article if from 2011, so it’s not new, but
I think that the concepts that appeared in the matrix, are key concepts and a good summary of
what research scope is. Do you agree?